Muthoot Finance Funding and Subsidiary Overview
BELSTAR MICROFINANCE LIMITED - AN OVERVIEW
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Muthoot Finance
As of March 2022, Muthoot Finance holds 60.69% in BML. BML was incorporated on January 1988 at Bangalore and the Company was
registered with the RBI in March 2001 as a Non- Banking Finance Company. The Company was reclassified as "NBFC-MFI" by RBI
effective from 11th December 2013.
BML was acquired by the 'Hand in Hand' group in September 2008 to provide scalable microfinance services to entrepreneurs nurtured by
'Hand in Hand's' Self Help Group (SHG) program. The Company commenced its first lending operations at Haveri District of Karnataka in
March 2009 to 3 SHGS, 22 members for INR 0.20 mn.
In the last twelve years of its operations, BML primarily relied on taking over the existing groups formed by Hand in Hand India. BML
predominantly follows the SHG model of lending. Effective January 2015, BML started working in JLG model of lending in Pune district,
Maharashtra.
As of March 31, 2022, BML operations are spread over 18 states and 1 UT (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Kerala, Odisha, Pondicherry, Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, West
Bengal, Tripura and Delhi. It has 729 branches, with 186 controlling regional offices and employs 5939 staffs. Its gross loan portfolio has
grown from INR 0.20 mn in March 2009 to INR 43,658 mn in March 2022
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